Fred Frith Quotes

The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another.

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• When I started out in fashion, everything had to be very structured and tight and controlling, and now I'm getting to a point where I think - I could wear a great big parka, that could be quite fabulous. I haven't always got to show off my size, show off my shape. It's a turning point for me.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Great
  • Think
  • Fashion

• They say I am a regulator and I think it is just an effort not to comply with the decree. I do not do anything except what the decree requires me to do.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Effort
  • Decree
  • Regulator

• In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.

  

  Adam Gopnik
  • Interest
  • Bookstores

• I am not sure that you, the younger generations, will like to go to war that we went through. So, we learn as the mistakes are being committed.

  

  Ibrahim Babangida
  • War
  • Mistakes
  • Generations

• My function as a writer is to provide an atmosphere in which people can think wisely about what we're doing on this planet.

  

  Barry Lopez
  • People
  • Think
  • Doing

• If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Humanity
  • Integrity
  • Through

• I wear clothes and sell products and ideas.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Ideas
  • Clothes
  • Products

• I remember going into a bookshop, and the only book I saw with a black child on the cover was 'A Thief in the Village' by James Berry, and I thought, 'Is this still the state of publishing?' Then I thought, 'Either I can whine about it or try to do something about it.'

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Book
  • Remember
  • Black

• The Bible has been through millions of rounds of exegesis and interpretation, but it hasn't been until quite recently that it's been taken as the absolute truth, to the point where people expect it to inform ideas about biology and life on this planet.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • People
  • Life
  • Truth

• Well, thank you and that's for them, but for me, I want to look back at a body of work where when you do the research and you explore the psyche of a character, where she's been, where she is and where she's going.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Work
  • She
  • Character

• The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • Me
  • Books
  • Profound

• I didn't own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Time
  • Long
  • Game

• I see Vostok-6 quite often in the centre for cosmonaut training. And every time I pass it by, I stroke it and say, 'My lovely one, my best and most beautiful friend, my best and most beautiful man.'

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Time
  • Beautiful
  • Friend

• Truth be told, ginormous portions have become a pet peeve of mine.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Truth
  • Become
  • Pet

• Being happy is very important. We won our second championship last season and we have our entire team coming back to try and defend our title again. I'm very proud of that.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Important
  • Happy
  • Team

• To know whether stocks are cheap or pricey, we typically look at price-to-earnings ratio. Valuation is a tougher question than many folks realize.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Know
  • Question
  • Look

• I tried my hand at photography and worked with a studio for six months.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Hand
  • Photography
  • Six

• Nobody else feels the same way about your dog that you do.

  

  Daniel Clowes
  • Dog
  • Same
  • Nobody

• There are people who read too much: the bibliobibuli. I know some who are constantly drunk on books, as other men are drunk on whiskey or religion. They wander through this most diverting and stimulating of worlds in a haze, seeing nothing and hearing nothing.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • Men
  • Drunk

• Of course, to avoid getting stuck in that convo with someone you dislike or feel uncomfortable around, don't be passive, be proactive. Do not let them direct your interaction on their terms, do it on yours. Ask a Misdirection Question--something too difficult to answer quickly--e.g., 'What's Congress up to?' or 'You ever learn any cool science?' When you ask the question, don't make eye contact, keep moving and get out of there. Do not wait for a response and deny ever asking it. Repeat these actions until you are never again spoken to by that individual (about four times).

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • Response
  • Dislike
  • Interaction

• I just do what I think is funny and what's exciting to me.

  

  Chris Lilley
  • Funny

• Evasion is unworthy of us, and is always the intimate of equivocation.

  

  Honore de Balzac
  • Intimate
  • Evasion
  • Unequivocation

• My favorite types of movies definitely aren't thrillers, but at the same time you can't deny the genius of Hitchcock's films.

  

  Aaron Yoo
  • Time
  • Same
  • Genius

• The totality of a record is usually beyond ones ability to imagine when you start working on it, but the component parts are, usually, fairly clear one way or another.

  

  Fred Frith Aksak Maboul